Arbour v. Hazelton

NICHOLS, Justice.

The Plaintiff-Purchasers, Michael and Regina Arbour, appeal from the directed verdicts entered in Superior Court, Oxford County, for the Defendant-Sellers, Ralph and Annie Hazelton, and their agent, Alphonse Geronda, in their action for rescission and misrepresentation. The Plaintiffs challenge the trial court’s conclusion that the Plaintiffs failed to establish a pri-ma facie case of the Defendants’ knowledge of, or reckless disregard for, the untruth of the alleged false representations.

We vacate the judgments.

The Defendant-Sellers had engaged Defendant Geronda, a Rumford…